Well.....at least he did not funnel it through China, or the Ukraine.
So what. Perfectly legal. Give it a break. Why not focus on Biden crime family bribery? Or Smith bias against Trump, or something meaningful?
I like De Santis, but he like the rest of the Trump Chasers in the Republican Primary need to give it up and put their money where it might be of good use. Unless trump Dies or is thrown in Jail before the Republican Convention, it is over and he will be the nominee. I predict that the only survivor of his challengers will be Senator Scott of SC who he will select as his VP Running Mate.
He’s already secured his job by getting the “Resign to Run” law changed. He can go back to being Governor after he crashes and burns in the primaries, but will have to wait another four years if he wants to run for Governor again. This time around, it’s President or bust for him. I don’t think anyone will care about Ron DeSantis after his term of Governor is up in four years. He’ll be a has-been by then. As far as 2024 goes, I’ll be looking at 77, and once that election is over, the Republican Party can go to hell for all I care. I just hope I live long enough to vote for Trump again.
Despite the lies that the desantis supporters will try to push, what da santis did IS a violation of FEC regulations and mccain feingold.
Sundance says that the FEC took no action on the byron donalds case, BUT ONLY BECAUSE THE FEC DEADLOCKED ALONG PARTY LINES.
The FEC commission consist of 3 republicans and 3 democrats, and because of that, they have become political and partisan, and many decisions fall along party lines so no action gets taken on FEC violations.
I had previously written on this topic, and there are additional details on how the desantis campaign did the fraudulent illegal transfer here.
From the planning and fund raising involved, duh santis had planned to run for president, even before he ran for re-election as governor.
He can’t run for governor again. What else was he supposed to do with it? Forget “give it back”; no one, including Trump, does that.
The Left hates and fears him. The left must be destroyed.
sleazy
Read my tag line to understand DeSantis.
And if he is the nominee I will vote for him in November.
But I prefer Trump or Vivek.
Damn. That’s dirty. Might be legal, but still dirty.
Trump laundered tens of millions of dollars from leadership
PAC, meant to support other candidates, to a PAC for himself. All his fund-raising solicitations, whether “Stop the Steal” or come-ons for other candidates, were really just a gigantic slush fund for his own re-election campaign.
For all of his golden toilets, former President Donald Trump is notoriously stingy—with his personal funds as well as the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s extracted from his supporters over the years. And that’s all the more reason why government watchdogs are raising the alarm about a new campaign finance filing that shows, one month ahead of the midterm elections, an eye-popping $20 million political donation from Trump.
The contribution—Trump’s largest ever by far—went from his Save America leadership PAC on Oct. 3 to a new Trump-aligned super PAC, called Make America Great Again Inc. That same day, an old pro-Trump super PAC threw another $8.9 million behind the new group.
Super PACs can spend unlimited amounts of money to support candidates, so on its face, the donation could be said to be a generous contribution from Trump to the MAGA cause during a critical election. But as a number of campaign finance experts explained, the specifics here suggest Trump is really trying to get around laws that would otherwise prevent him from spending his personal stash on a 2024 presidential run.
Paul S. Ryan, a veteran campaign finance lawyer now serving as deputy executive director at the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation, said that was “the only plausible explanation.”
“The only thing Trump cannot do with the millions and millions of dollars he’s raised into his leadership PAC is support himself. The only plausible explanation for this move is to convert that money to be spent on his own campaign,” Ryan told The Daily Beast.]
The House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack included a 36-page appendix to its final report, which was released in December, that concluded that Trump, allies and advisers aggressively used claims of a stolen election to raise money following the vote, despite internal discomfort with some of the messaging. The committee found that ultimately, virtually none of the money was spent on recounts or legal efforts to challenge the results. Nearly all of the money went to Trump-connected consultants or was poured into the Save America PAC to support Trump’s future political ambitions.
“Not only did President Trump lie to his supporters about the election, but he also ripped them off,” the committee’s seven Democrats and two Republicans concluded.]
Who is this DeSantis guy?
Not going to be any forgiveness for his fraud.
Money looping in action